M has finally moved out of her cot. We have been thinking about moving her to a single bed for a while but was afraid we won’t be able to manage her new-found freedom during bedtime. Hence, we’ve procrastinated the move till 2 weeks ago. Well, we did not have a choice, she has doubled her birth length and there isn’t much space allowance for her in the cot anymore.
We decided to get her a bed with a pull-out at the bottom so we can sleep with her when she’s not well. We eventually picked one cream-coloured divan bed where the top mattress is a super-single and the bottom a single. To prevent her from falling off the bed, we got her a bed rail. And since we can’t stop her from getting off the bed, we fixed a safety gate at her bedroom doorframe so she can be kept safely in her room.
The transition turned out easier than we thought. She was very excited about the ‘graduation’ and kept jumping on the bed when it arrived 2 Saturdays ago. That night, we kept to her usual bedtime routine closely and she actually did not attempt to get down after we switched off the lights and left her room. Wonderful, we thought! Perhaps she had been so used to being confined to her cot.
The next morning, we found her sitting in front of the gate waiting for one of us to pick her up. I think that was when she realised why the gate was there. After that, she refuses to let anyone lock it. We still do it after she falls asleep. Besides trying to avoid the bad habit of running into our bed, we really don’t want her to run into danger while we’re asleep, especially in the kitchen.
It’s interesting how ‘big’ she seemed in the cot then and how ‘small’ she now seems in the super single bed. Still a baby nonetheless…
